TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Högn, Celina
AU  - Mayer, Lea
AU  - Rincke, Johannes
AU  - Winkler, Erwin
        TI  - Preferences for Gender Diversity in High-Profile Jobs
        PY  - 2025/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 17750
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp17750
        AB  - This paper examines preferences for gender diversity among co-workers. Using stated-choice experiments with 5,400 PhD students and university students in Germany, we uncover a substantial willingness to pay (WTP) for gender diversity of up to 5% of earnings on average. Importantly, we find that women have a much higher WTP for gender diversity than men. While the WTP differs by career ambition, competitiveness, and family preferences, we find that gender differences in traits and preferences cannot explain gender differences in the WTP for diversity. Our findings provide
an explanation for differential sorting of men and women into high-profile jobs based on the share of female co-workers.
        KW  - gender differences
KW  - preferences
KW  - willingness to pay
KW  - stated choice experiment
KW  - gender diversity
        ER  -